They find the fossils of new dinosaurio in Brazil
Brazilian scientists today announced the discovery of the rest of a new species of dinosaurio, the Uberabatitan Ribeiroi, that lived during the Cretáceo period, makes 65 million years, and that are the greater found prehistoric animal in the country.
The animal weighed 16 tons and measured up to 20 meters in length, according to the scientists who today presented/displayed to the press in Rio de Janeiro an retort of the Uberabatitan.
The professor in charge of the excavation, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, indicated that the rest were found in Uberaba, state of Minas Gerais (Southeastern), and there the name assigned to the prehistoric giant.
Souza explained that the animal belongs to the family of the titanosaurios, great dinosaurios that extended almost by everybody and whose main characteristics were the herbivorous feeding, the small skull, the tail and the long neck.
The 198 found fossils belong to three different units, of which half took the one from so large like model to elaborate the scientific retort that was presented/displayed today in the House of Science.
The work of the paleontologists, that lasted four years, also constitutes the greater excavation of the history of this science in Brazil.
For it 300 tons of earth in the river basin of Baurú, a zone of sedimentary rocks were removed.
The amount, diversity and degree of preservation of found fossils allowed the scientists to understand the evolution of the family of the titanosaurios and to establish the conditions of the habitat of the species, that lived in extreme conditions of dryness and heat.
Along with the Uberabatitan other dinosaurios of smaller bearing and carnivores like the abelisauros coexisted, as well as turtles, fish, lizards, amphibians and crocodiles, explained the scientists.
This species, that existed in the last phase of the Cretáceo, was extinguished at the end of that period like all the great dinosaurios that populated the Earth.
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